Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 60, no. 7
Creator
Gillot, Claude, 1673-1722, printmaker.
Published
[Paris] : [Gregoire Dupuis], [1719]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
Engraving by Gillot intended as a headpiece illustration for M. de la Motte's "Fables nouvelles" (Paris : Gregoire Dupuis, 1719).
"This vignette is not found in the 1719 quarto edition. It was envisioned to accompany the fable found in Book VI, fable XI. Book VI did not form part of the 1719 edition, but it was printed in volume IX of "Oeuvres de La Motte" (Paris, 1754, in-12), without any illustrated prints. This plate is very rare; it does not figure in any printings of the fables, apart from this first print run of the 68 vignettes by Gillot. However, it does not feature in the 101 vignettes of the quarto edition published by the widower of F. Chereau." Cf. British Museum online catalog.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Forms part of a collection of 586 etchings by and after Claude Gillot, mounted into a bound album by a former owner, with letterpress title page reading "Oeuvres de Gillot." (see PML 198162).
"This vignette is not found in the 1719 quarto edition. It was envisioned to accompany the fable found in Book VI, fable XI. Book VI did not form part of the 1719 edition, but it was printed in volume IX of "Oeuvres de La Motte" (Paris, 1754, in-12), without any illustrated prints. This plate is very rare; it does not figure in any printings of the fables, apart from this first print run of the 68 vignettes by Gillot. However, it does not feature in the 101 vignettes of the quarto edition published by the widower of F. Chereau." Cf. British Museum online catalog.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Forms part of a collection of 586 etchings by and after Claude Gillot, mounted into a bound album by a former owner, with letterpress title page reading "Oeuvres de Gillot." (see PML 198162).
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 75 x 94 mm; sheet: 88 x 107 mm
Provenance
Acquired in Paris by Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton (1720-1794), Duke of Newcastle, Clumber Library, ca. 1750 (his arms on the front cover); by descent until his library was dispersed at Christie's, London, in four parts between 21 June 1937 and 14 February 1938; Fernand Pouillon (1912-1986), Jardin de Flore, Paris, Cent livres illustrés du XV au XX siècle (1977), item 40; Librarie Fernand de Nobele, Paris, Livres sur les beaux-arts, les arts decoratifs et les objets de collection, bibliographie, imprimerie (1981), lot no. 39204; André Jammes (b. 1927), Paris; sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 28 November 2018, lot 3.
Summary
Illustration shows the banks of a river and near a rock, where a crayfish at center, is surrounded by its companions: six at left, and three at right; beyond, at right, three willows can be seen.
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